Panelists will discuss the significance of black poetry for theories of modern lyric, as well as for conversations about environmental change and crisis. Donations for hurricane relief will be accepted.

Hosted by the NYU Center for the Humanities. Part of the Great New Books in the Humanities series.

Comic storyteller and LGBTQ activist Peterson Toscano takes on the biggest issue of them all–global warming–and does so with humor, heart, and hope.

Hosted by the Office of Sustainability. Co-Sponsored by Environmental Humanities. Part of the Environmental Humanities series.

Making Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship

Oct. 13, 2017, 12:30 PM
244 Greene St, Room 106

The Print Culture Working Group invites you to join Professor Elizabeth McHenry for a hands-on workshop and talk on “Making Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship.” RSVP to MC Hyland at mc.hyland@gmail.com.

Join the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine as Dr. Elizabeth Ford, Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services for New York City’s Health and Hospitals, explores the crossroads of mental health and the criminal justice system in her new memoir Sometimes Amazing Things Happen.

Please join the Harriman Institute and New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia for a discussion with leading Afghanistan experts from both Russia and the United States, including Barnett Rubin (New York University), Ekaterina Stepanova (IMEMO), and Dipali Mukhopadyay (Columbia-SIPA).

Hosted by the Harriman Institute and Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Part of the Columbia-NYU New York Russia Public Policy Series.

To mark the publication of Assuming Boycott, this conversation will focus on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and the cultural boycott of Israel, the lessons that BDS activists can learn from the anti-apartheid struggle and other, contemporary boycott campaigns, and the challenges that activists face in the form of anti-BDS legislation, censorship, and the rise of the far Right in Israel, the United States, and elsewhere.